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I haven't gone through all the tweets yet. Very interesting so far, reading the tweets from the courtroom with Adam on the stand, I'm learning all kinds of details in the on/off history between Adam and Conley. Seems like she wouldn't let it be over.
Alexwood, I'm beginning to think you're quite brilliant and absolutely correct in pinpointing Conley's possible motive. Okay, let's speculate that she wanted to hurt Adam and frame him for murdering his mother, and her plan meant Mary had to die a horrible death. BUT her plan didn't seem to include having him caught and arrested because she didn't point the finger at him until it became necessary to protect herself. Sounds like Adam took his mother's death hard and she was right there watching the whole family suffer. Was that the pay back in her mind? My hesitation is that she didn't initially point at Adam to get him arrested until she was scared LE would look at her. What was her ultimate plan? Did it include some kind of monetary angle?
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No! Not brilliant. It's just the process of elimination! I'm all over the place -- but, here's a couple of possibilities. FIrst off, it is odd that the son experienced the gastrointestinal upset, and it could well be that she tried to do him in first, out of a well-concealed but seething anger -- as others here have suggested. But, maybe she figured that her failed attempt was the only "shot" at him she would get. And, I really didn't know much about the on-again-off-again romance, other than it didn't seem to be working out in her favor. And I do think it enraged her. From what you have learned, thus far, the son was probably trying to keep a safe distance from her so as to sever the ties once and for all.
Then, she hatched a new plan. She turned her evil gaze upon poor Dr. Mary who she had ready access to, you have to admit. She devised a scheme to "get Adam back into her clutches" come hell or high-water. After the heinous deed was done, she reveled in her glory as the close family friend of the bereaved. They loved her dearly like one of their own. Heck, she had a ringside seat to participate in and watch all of the activities: the hospital room vigils, not only Dr. Mary's pain and suffering, but family's pain from seeing her suffer! The daughter who was the physician, trying to be strong, advising them from a physician's standpoint that it was time for them to come to terms with the inevitable death of their loved one. I think that there was a lot of hand-wringing and tears, I would imagine, and Conley was there to console them all -- but also to witness the fallout of her horrific act and how it empowered. She was in control.
It also strikes me as very strange that just when Dr. Mary finally seemed to be on the mend, all of a sudden she abruptly relapsed, and took a turn for the worst, and died! I would not put it past Conley to administer a "booster coup de gras" dose of that poison to Dr. Mary
somehow, while she was maintaining a vigil at her bedside in the hospital. I think she could have done that! She is evil. Making herself useful, "helping" with the memorial celebration of Dr. Mary's life, anything she could do to be a comfort to the family at their time of need.
She wrote that lovely tribute (if not several -- can't remember) praising Dr. Mary as though she was going to canonize her for sainthood. She even handed over her own credit card to the son to pay for the funeral arrangements and memorial service. (Why not, she'd get it back, with interest -- after the wedding!)
She enjoyed watching the suffering that her havoc had wrought, and could be there to "comfort" the family -- especially the son. She knew that in his grief-stricken state, he would be putty in her hands. He'd marry Conley, out of gratitude for all of her care and concern, and thinking that Dr. Mary would approve of their union. The family may have lost Dr. Mary, but their sorrow was lessened by the addition of Conley to the family fold.
After all, Jodi -- er, I mean Conley -- was such a dear, dear friend -- not just an employee -- and they thought of her as a member of the family. I think the son succumbed to her comforting -- for a brief time -- but then (fortunately) snapped out of his reverie before it was too late. If he had married her, once the ink was dry on the marriage certificate, I think she'd have gone after her new father-in-law and poisoned him before he could remarry. She didn't want to take a chance that if he died, power and control of the estate would shift to his new wife. I think she was looking forward to her future as a merry (black) widowI.
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